Small chance the child will turn out badly

YOUR correspondent Ann Cronin (Irish Examiner letters, February 10) says that as a lone parent she has - according to Dr Edward Walsh - a “72% chance of raising a murderer and a 60% chance of a rapist”.

Now, given that not every person in society is a murderer or a rapist, such an interpretation is absolutely incorrect.

If one-in-1,000 people are murderers (taken, purely for calculation purposes - I think the actual numbers in Ireland are much smaller), then what Dr Walsh actually said was that of this 0.1% of the population, 72% of them would come from a fatherless family.